Comments on: I bought a tree

By: j-a

j-a — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 05:52:20 +0000

sounds wonderful. i think it’s cool your wife and you were in japan before austria.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 01:54:39 +0000

Hi all,
First time hear I have just came across the site. We have an artificial tree, and usually put the tree and decorations up 13 days befor christmas and take them down 13 days after. But I think it sounds so christmassy to go to a farm and pick your tree. Have a great christmas.

By: R J Keefe

R J Keefe — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:38:30 +0000

I’ve been hearing a lot of French in the streets lately – some of the tree farmers who set up shop along 86th Street and around the corners appear to hail from Qu

By: Karan

Karan — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 20:43:08 +0000

Thank Mig…I haven’t been feeling particularly Christmasy and finally, after reading this one, I want a tree….RIGHT NOW. I am officially in the Christmas kind of mood.

By: mig

mig — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:40:04 +0000

that sounds like a nice system to me. my wife tells a story of when she was a little girl and her father went out on the 24th to get a tree and all they had left was one about a meter tall, with a forked trunk, scroungy and crooked. i feel sorry for my father-in-law, standing there with the only tree available, as his wife and two young daughters cried. that image motivates me to plan ahead on trees. btw, gamma and i were planning our summer barbecue party last night, speaking of forward-looking. really? she said, real fire-breathers?

By: TH

TH — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:31:19 +0000

I admire you for being organized and forward-thinking.

We traditionally buy our tree on the 24th in the morning from whatever is left at the tree lots here in the 15th district. Then we start decorating, which reveals that — while we have 5 banana boxes full of decorations — the specific color in which we wnt to decorate this year is missing and I have to go to the christmas market to get some stuff, by which it is around 4 to 5 p.m. and there may have been creative decision obviating my scrounging mission, but no matter, whoever is decorating the tree this year is doing it, I’m drinking coffee somewhere, sometims I even leave as not to be underfoot.

And while this sounds incredibly hectic, it usually manages to be all in a fun atmosphere and pretty relaxed actually. usually.